GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

Individual 85

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. Lynn: Sure. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah.

Family 97

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. So, I don’t see a huge value of putting her down as a durable power of attorney for healthcare. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Alex: Okay, interesting. Eric: I’ve heard that before.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. We know what’s going to happen.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” There’s a reason why the VA is ahead of us in terms of integrating behavioral healthcare.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And that’s going to be very interesting to see how that unfolds in healthcare practice.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. All of this really turns into an emotional partnership with someone. John: Yeah. I would add, too.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Elise 07:02 So healthcare workers for sure. We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. Eric 26:25 So if that therapeutic relationship reverses and now they’re supporting you. There’s this therapeutic relationship.

IT 132

IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. GDMT was mentioned a couple times.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. I have oncology on the brain. So their practices were really collaborative and informed. Alex: Okay.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers have no relationships to disclose.

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. It’s a, it’s a, it’s a past self directing healthcare for a future self. What about stage four?

IT 87

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar have no relationships to disclose. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. So still we have this bidirectional relationship. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. Really, to be a bridge between whether it’s a health plan on the healthcare side, Greg mentioned a hospital discharge, which is so common. Do I have access to good food?

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Redwing, who is a cancer survivor, shares poems about her experiences with cancer.

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. Eric 19:11 Yeah, I love that, too, because I always think about healthcare systems, too. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. And, Liz, this is why I really liked your paper.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 106

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 16:55 My guess is probably not something that most geriatricians or internists or family medicine docs caring for older people have on their differential diagnosis. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. Older adults may not have received AIDS education. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. Meredith 17:07 Yes.

Primary Care 94

Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Is that right?

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. And I said, sure.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. That also speaks to a lot of the particular family relationships and, of course, in that case, allegations of mistreatment along racial lines and so forth. And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein.

IT 113

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

On the one hand, when I hear of Ob-Gyn’s in Catholic Healthcare systems using “workarounds” to provide reproductive care, I’m standing up and cheering on the inside. And she has a forthcoming book, Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Healthcare Systems, which will come out Spring-ish. Right, Lori? Lori: Yeah.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19